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21 Chap. L. Rev. 333 (2018)
Emergence of a New Hanseatic League: How Special Economic Zones Will Reshape Global Governance

handle is hein.journals/chlr21 and id is 345 raw text is: Emergence of a New Hanseatic League: How Special Economic Zones Will Reshape Global Governance By Mark Frazier* ABSTRACT As trust dwindles in public institutions, special economic zones and free cities will have an opportunity to introduce billions of people to new systems of transparent and accountable governance. Thousands of actual experiments in extrastatecraft-areas benefiting from concentrated reform-are under way, creating alternatives to the surrounding rent-seeking practices of politicians, bureaucracies, and crony capitalists. Successful areas including Singapore, Dubai, and Chinese Special Economic Zones are being invited to partner in the development of new free zones in poor regions. Virtual realms also now enable such areas to massively expand access to new legal systems and asset-awakening partnerships. As mobile networks grow, zones of extrastatecraft and aligned online guilds of volunteers will be in a position to offer Blockchain-based land registries, smart contracts, eGovernance toolkits, and arbitration solutions to localities that have suffered from misrule and that have sites to commit for future free zone development. In parallel, leading city states and free zones can create virtual resources to help fill gaps for billions who have been shortchanged by public education and dysfunctional job markets. Free and open courseware, online work-study projects, and small human capital investments can help spread understanding of the culture and workings of free economies, and prepare millions of job-seekers for successful entry to rapidly growing global free * Mark Frazier is president of Openworld, a U.S.-based research and volunteer group specializing in free economic zones and innovative applications of information and communications technologies for development. He is founding chairman of the Startup Societies Foundation (www.startupsocieties.org), a nonprofit organization formed to assist contractually-created communities. 333

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